Explore Digital Models Of A Rare Baby Dinosaur Fossil
Joe The Parasaurolophus Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology In the summer of 2009, a California high school student named Kevin Terris was volunteering with paleontologist Andrew Farke from the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. He and a few other students were prospecting for dinosaur fossils in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah when Terris pointed out a small bone sticking out of the rock—perhaps a rib bone? When they looked closer, Farke and his volunteers found it was part of a collection of toe bones. Nearby, the team found the skull of the dinosaur that they would later discover to be a young Parasaurolophus, a Late Cretaceous herbivore that sported a large crest protruding from the back of its head. The 6-foot-long dinosaur seems to have been about a year old when it died, making it a rare...